American Immigration and Ethnicity: A Reader

✍ Scribed by David A. Gerber, Alan M. Kraut (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 356
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This work aims to enrich studies of American immigration history by combining and comparing the experiences of both European immigration, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Asian, Hispanic, Caribbean, and African immigrations in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Preface and Introduction....Pages 1-11
A Comparison of Contemporary Immigration and the New Immigration of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries....Pages 13-31
Making a New Home in a New Land—Resettling in the United States....Pages 32-56
Transnational Ties: The Immigrants’ Continuing Relationships with Their Homelands....Pages 57-80
Ethnicity and Ethnic Identification....Pages 81-104
Generations....Pages 105-125
Nativism, an American Perennial....Pages 126-160
Becoming White: Irish Immigrants in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 161-182
Becoming Black: Contemporary Jamaicans and West Indians in the 1990s....Pages 183-201
What the Immigrants Make, America Takes: Work in Immigrant Communities....Pages 202-230
Family, Domestic Economy, and Women’s and Men’s Lives....Pages 231-258
Language: Social and Political Perspectives....Pages 259-277
The Physical Health and Mental Well-Being of Immigrants....Pages 278-299
Traditions and Invented Traditions....Pages 300-318
Ethnicity and American Popular Culture....Pages 319-339
Back Matter....Pages 340-345

✦ Subjects

US History; Modern History; European Politics; Political History; History of the Americas; Migration

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